Posts tagged "good meetings"

Effective Meetings Expert podcast by Meetings Magazine

As the launch of Boring Meetings Suck is past, the interest and true value of the content of effective and more productive meetings is just beginning. I’ve been fortunate to work with many organizations that want to improve their everyday office meetings from the standpoint of volume, duration and overall results. Recently, Meetings Magazine, Minnesota’s Hospitality […]

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Posted by Jon Petz in Effective Meetings Skills.

The Right Way to Run a Meeting – Readers Digest Article Oct 2011

“The right way to run a meeting” It certainly has been an interesting time in the past several months, from a New York Post interview to a mention from Readers Digest.   Here was a nice to the point article posted in Readers Digest with some nice tips and a brief mention and easy SRD from […]

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Posted by Jon Petz in Articles, Boring Meetings Suck, Effective Meetings Skills.

How to write an agenda in actual practice

Thanks Ohio University for putting an actual agenda in place to discuss…putting an agenda in place. I must say I enjoy when I get emails of people and organizations putting to use some of their favorite suckification reduction devices from Boring Meetings Suck. So recently, I was emailed this agenda from my Alma Mater Ohio […]

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Your Meeting Needs A Mission!

You’ve got your agenda lined up and sent out. Congrats, you’ve done the right thing to prepare for the meeting you’re hosting. But have you asked yourself this two-part question? First: “What do we intend to accomplish before walking out the door?” Second: “Do the people I invited know the answer to that question walking […]

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Posted by Jon Petz in Articles, Ask the Expert, Effective Meetings Skills.

What’s THE Big Mistake While Delivering Invocations?

What’s THE Big Mistake While Delivering Invocations? You might look at the title and ask, “What IS an invocation?”  (pronounced in-vuh-key-shuh n)   The invocation, in its simplest form, is a prayer or request for the spiritual presence of God in a ceremony or event. Whether it’s appropriate to have an invocation at your corporate, […]

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Posted by Jon Petz in Articles, Ask the Expert, Effective Meetings Skills.

Break Down the Boring Blahs of Meetings

No doubt about it; people are creatures of habit. Nowhere is this more painfully obvious than in everyday office meetings.  We march to the conference room (four minutes past the stated start time) and conduct brainstorming sessions that rarely amount to more than a drizzle. Why? Because that’s what our boss or supervisor does? Because […]

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Posted by Jon Petz in Articles, Boring Meetings Suck, Effective Meetings Skills.